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Forget the richest - here are the coolest bassists in music
Celebrate today's finest four-stringed heroes
Nicky Wire (Manic Street Preachers): The high-flying, scissor-kicking, rhetoric-spitting, cross-dressing, Zeitgeist-killing Manics hero is one of the most fearless figures in rock. Not only is he never afraid to speak his mind and one of the finest lyricists of the last 30 years, but he's probably the coolest man in rock with a politics degree.
Today, music's richest bassists were revealed - with some of the most legendary names behind four strings raking in the cash. It got us to thinking, it's time to give bassists the credit they deserve.
Stood at the side of the stage, they're the glue that holds a band together. However it's one thing to have rhythm - it's another to be totally awesome at it.
From the mad skills of Muse's Chris Wolstenholme to iconic stature of Peter Hook via the hypnotic cool of Warpaint's Jenny Lee Lindberg, the scissor-kicking political pomp of Nicky Wire and the piercing presence of The xx's Oliver Sim - these are the four-stringed heroes that deserve your attention. These are the 23 coolest bassists in music today.
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